The autumn Ogulin Fairy Tale Festival was held from 10th to 12th September 2021. The already famous festival, which primarily celebrates fairy tales and narrative and theatrical arts intended for children and adults, shone in all its autumn glory, because […]
Lively summer – part 1
The 16th Ogulin Fairy Tale Festival was held from 11th to 13th June. Theatre and street performances, workshops, dance performances, painting exhibitions, quizzes, adrenaline points, storytelling, tours, a climbing and storytelling tour of Klek mountain and many other fun activities […]
Sawmill and mill in Lug at Ogulin Zagorje
In the village of Lug behind Ogulin Zagorje, below Modruš, the Loka stream flows, which was so small that long ago a man made a “gap” and diverted the water to his mill. He made a small gap that accumulated […]
Memories of Christmas
Every year at this time, images, smells and feelings pop up as memories of Christmas Eve and Christmas, not just one, but from throughout my childhood. From quite a distance, because my childhood dates back to the 1970s and 1980s, […]
#firsttime on the fairy tale route
When you win a great marketing campaign as a prize in these challenging times, it’s a real stroke of luck! I heard about the campaign from one marketing expert who was one of my guests on the fairy tale route […]
Waldorf School from Rijeka in Ogulin
The Waldorf School of Rijeka, third and fourth grades with their teachers Maja, Iva and assistant Dunja, and one mother Darija, visited Ogulin on 21st October 2020. The trip was conceived to get to know Ogulin and the surroundings in […]
Ogulin Fairy Tale Festival 2020 review
In Ogulin this year, as an exceptional year celebrating the town’s 520th anniversary of its founding, the Ogulin Fairy Tale Festival and the Igra Kolo review of original folklore of Karlovac County were both held on the same weekend. The […]
The Ogulin Fairy Tale Festival and Igra Kolo 2020
The Ogulin Fairy Tale Festival and Igra Kolo upon the 520th founding of the town of Ogulin The town Ogulin celebrates its own special day on 14th September – the Day of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. On the […]
Ema Božičević – The Witch
Ema Božičević was born in Ogulin on 18th February 1879 and she died in Zagreb on 1st December 1942. Her maiden name was Krajnović, in 1903 she married a mathematics professor named Juraj Božičević, who also came from the surroundings […]
The tale The Witch on Klek
As part of the Summer in Ogulin programme, the Tourist Board of the Town of Ogulin treated mountaineers and visitors on Klek mountain to the narration of a fairy tale. For this occasion, I chose the fairy tale Vještica (The […]